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The Yehimilk inscription is a Phoenician inscription (KAI 4 or TSSI III 6) published in 1930, currently in the museum of Byblos Castle.
It was published in Maurice Dunand's ''Fouilles de Byblos'' (volume I, 1926–1932, numbers 1141, plate XXXI).
It is dated to the 10th century BCE, and contains the earliest known Phoenician reference to
The Dating of the Early Royal Byblian Phoenician Inscriptions: A Response to Benjamin Sass
" ''MAARAV'' 15 (2008): 57–93. *
Existe-t-il un B'l gbl. à Byblos. À propos de l'inscription de Yehimilk
(KAI 4). Ugarit-Forschungen, 1993, 25, pp.25-34. ⟨hal-01865311⟩
The Yehimilk inscription is a Phoenician inscription (KAI 4 or TSSI III 6) published in 1930, currently in the museum of Byblos Castle.
It was published in Maurice Dunand's ''Fouilles de Byblos'' (volume I, 1926–1932, numbers 1141, plate XXXI).
It is dated to the 10th century BCE, and contains the earliest known Phoenician reference to Baalshamin
Baalshamin (), also called Baal Shamem () and Baal Shamaim (), was a Northwest Semitic god and a title applied to different gods at different places or times in ancient Middle Eastern inscriptions, especially in Canaan/Phoenicia and Syria. The t ...
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Text of the inscription
The inscription reads:Bibliography
* Christopher Rollston,The Dating of the Early Royal Byblian Phoenician Inscriptions: A Response to Benjamin Sass
" ''MAARAV'' 15 (2008): 57–93. *
Benjamin Mazar
Benjamin Mazar (; born Binyamin Zeev Maisler, June 28, 1906 – September 9, 1995) was a pioneering Israeli historian, recognized as the "dean" of biblical archaeologists. He shared the national passion for the archaeology of Israel that also at ...
, The Phoenician Inscriptions from Byblos and the Evolution of the Phoenician-Hebrew Alphabet, in The Early Biblical Period: Historical Studies (S. Ahituv and B. A. Levine, eds., Jerusalem: IES, 1986 riginal publication: 1946: 231–247.
* William F. Albright
William Foxwell Albright (May 24, 1891 – September 19, 1971) was an American archaeologist, biblical scholar, philologist, and expert on ceramics. He is considered "one of the twentieth century's most influential American biblical scholars ...
, The Phoenician Inscriptions of the Tenth Century B.C. from Byblus, JAOS 67 (1947): 153–154.
* Corinne BonnetExiste-t-il un B'l gbl. à Byblos. À propos de l'inscription de Yehimilk
(KAI 4). Ugarit-Forschungen, 1993, 25, pp.25-34. ⟨hal-01865311⟩
References
{{reflist Byblian royal inscriptions Phoenician inscriptions KAI inscriptions Inscriptions of Lebanon 10th-century BC inscriptions